PS "Lockdown" has been used in our school since Columbine- we had (have?) "hard" lockdowns, and "soft" lockdowns- I never really knew the difference. We had a an action plan, or, as Baldrick would say "a cunning plan", in case of emergency, which of course would all go to shit if a mass shooter situation were to have happened. Arming the occasional teacher was never on the table, as were are in New England, where only Literally Hitlers have guns. Some people I respect, like the Ed Realist, think guns in schools are a bad idea- I'd have to go back and look up why, but he or she is someone whose opinions I take seriously. I just know I shouldn't have a gun, because , as Sgt. Major Stewart told me in high school, I couldn't hit a cow in the rump with a handful of rice.

Speaking of lockdowns- now that it's all but certain that Slow Joe and Kam are in, I believe the Corona Doom lockdowns will continue indefinitely. The goalposts have been spotted about 20 miles east of the east end of the stadium end zone. Charlie Parker just extended out current level of corona panic for another two weeks, I guess to flatten the curve. I'd like to flatten his curve. At least he hasn't lately trotted out one of his bogus stories about friends of his who caught the Wuflu.

PS Big tech Bolsheviks=intelligence agencies.
They didn't become a blob or arbiters of the first amendment by accident.
Russia 1917-1918, USSA 2020.
Plan accordingly.

PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...

"I guess I am wrong in saying the word comes directly from prison terminology."

I don't think you are wrong at all. I think you are completely correct in that the term comes directly from prison terminology. As modern American skools are very much like prison it seems somehow natural that prison style lockdowns would spread to the skools.

We are unfamiliar, but the kids have been subjected to this their whole lives. Unfortunately, it's completely natural to them and I believe that has consequences for society as a whole.

Mr. Blanc, about your comment.

• Agree: Adam Smith

I hope you all have a great day.

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PS: Adam, I had read you comment before, so I think you for that take on "LOCKDOWN" too, as my reply ought to have been directed at you too. I guess I am wrong in saying the word comes directly from prison terminology. Guys our age aren't familiar, but yeah, the kids ...

Thanks for the comment. That explains things.

PS: Cloudbuster, I saw where you wrote in on that one post about "Localism". I know that I was on the fence on that one argument (about whether white people should avoid joining the military), so I didn't chime it. Plus, my New Years resolution.

That Realist guy has been an a-hole to me some time before too. My way is simply to insult back just as hard, as you probably know. You may rather just quit there than getting like that. I can understand that.

OK, I just read the thread. I see you wrote calmly back, but the guy kept at it. Yeah, he had no reason to use that "piss and moan" bit. I see both sides of the argument, but the guy ruined a good conversation on an important topic by insulting you for the hell of it.

PS: Alarmist, you are right. They do have that term in schools, for when there's one of those "active shooters" (I hate that term too.) The way it is, schools are set up, organization-wise, an awful lot like prisons these days, so maybe I was not wrong at all. ;-}

Mr. Hail, as Alarmist says, the term's been used elsewhere, but prison is where it comes from. Young people get used to what they grow up with, as sick as it is. However, the term was not in widespread use until this Kung Flu Panic.

PS: Preezy, I gotta learn more about this Build Back Better Bullshit. The people I've read about that used the expression sure didn't seem like the type to build anything.

Mr. Blanc, I agree completely. Every time I hear some one mention "our leaders", I wonder, do we need elected leaders? I thought they were just supposed to be administrators. I'll have to get on that post I've meant to write on public "servants". When's the last time it really meant that, during George Washington's tme?

PS: Good evening everyone...

A whole generation of students were subjected to "lockdown" drills starting around the turn of the century. During the 2003-04 school year 79% of American schools practiced so called active shooter and/or "lockdown" drills. The number increased to 92% in 2017–18.

I suspect this is why college kids seem so compliant with face diapering and the idea that "government" can just issue a "lockdown" that must be obeyed. They have been conditioned since childhood that "lockdown" is normal.

As these people are young adults now it would make sense that "lockdown", the word and the concept, would become so mainstream. It seems sudden to those of us who did not grow up with "lockdown", but to most young adults it is something they have been accustomed to all their lives.

https://www.rt.com/uk/511943-british-women-fined-walk/

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2020/december/the-rules-are-getting-ridiculous-canadian-officers-tase-outdoor-hockey-player-use-force-to-uphold-covid-restrictions

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PS You know, I gave AE another try. This time I was discussing the value of military training and it was Realist that went to personal attacks and accusing me of things I never said. Unintelligent Dasein also responded, but I have him on ignore so I don't even know what he said.

Fool me twice (or fourteen or fifteen times) and shame on me. What a bunch of fucking assholes.

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I wanted to make a post about the sudden mainstreaming of the word 'Lockdown' back in April but never got around to it. You have mentioned it multiple times.

I think a lot of international-English speakers will assume it was always mainstream English, and English-native-speakers born after, when, 2010?, might assume the same.

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Wasn’t the term ‘lockdown’ already common in US public schools in the past decade?

BTW, when I was a youngster in school, we had to do “Duck & Cover” drills, but the desks weren’t very useful for blast overpressures from the megaton weapons the Sovs would have lobbed at us. If anything, our congress-critters should get the same desks we give to our youngtsers. For the new CD (Congress Defense) film, Senator McConnell can reprise the role of Bert the Turtle.

PS Since we seem to be at the point where the entire edifice has to be demolished, perhaps we should be thinking about abolishing “representatives” and governing ourselves. Maybe it won’t be entirely feasible, but it should be the starting point of our analysis of future government.

PS Build Wakanda Back Better